HRT, initially called Hispania Racing F1 Team, gave its debut in Formula 1 in 2010. Like Virgin and Team Lotus the Spaniards could not resist the temptation that Formula 1 would get a “budget cap”. 397 more words

Following colourful and blue skied parks of Melbourne, we moved to the opposite, in every sense of the word, into the foggy and heavily polluted Shanghai, stage of the Chinese Grand Prix since 2004. 1,018 more words

After a sensational debut at the Australian Grand Prix where at short notice he replaced Pascal Wehrlein at Sauber and finished P12, the Italian rookie Antonio Giovinazzi had pretty much the worst race weekend 2 weeks later in China. 308 more words

Has to be Carlos Sainz. He took a risk at the start, being the only driver to go out onto slicks and while it left him totally out of shape initially (even causing him to clatter into a barrier), he stuck it out and pushed hard all race, fighting in the top 10 and ending up finishing P7. 669 more words

Sebastian Vettel: “We can be happy with today’s results. The race was a lot of fun, very entertaining. Conditions were tricky at the start, you never know what can happen in those moments, so I was perhaps a bit too conservative. 179 more words

Sebastian Vettel: “Pretty exciting, obviously, I think we had an interesting race. Not ideal in the beginning with the Safety Car, that didn’t help us. But, equally I think we had a good recovery, very happy with P2, a very entertaining race so, positive day! 92 more words